10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETIRINGNESS»
Discover the use of
retiringness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
retiringness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Methods of the Way: Early Chinese Ethical Thought
Pair 23: Tui 5JI 'retiringness' The term tui is originally a verb denoting 'to withdraw
', 'to step back' as synonym of qui ffl also included in the Daoshu definition of this
term. The notion of tui is, however, often used for the ethically imbued notion of ...
2
The works of John Angell James, ed. by his son [T.S. James].
It must never be forgotten that bashfulness is the beanty of female character: like
the violet, which seems to court seclusion, and indicates its retreat only by its
fragrance, retiringness in her adds to her attractions. Anything that would destroy
...
John Angell James, Thomas Smith James, 1860
3
Report from the Select Committee on Indian Territories: ...
Would you adhere to this expression, that “ it is beneath the manliness H, oft e
military, and the retiringness of the female character, and not consistent ' with the
self-respect of parents," as applied to the present mode of obtaining military ...
Great Britain House of Commons Select Committee on Indian Territories, 1852
... s blooming daughter, might, perchance, be to the marvel of some who have in
their remembrance the infinite delicacy and retiringness of his conduct towards
the beautiful foundling at Charlcote, but these things are to be considered—to wit,
...
5
Church Quarterly Review
They are pre-eminently — will the criticism be thought grotesque? — the sermons
of a gentleman. By which we mean, there is in the style a characteristic amount of
dignified reserve and retiringness, a shrinking from all exaggeration in thought ...
6
The Liberal Education of Women: the Demand and the Method: ...
For boys and men the stimulus of emulation is wholesome and desirable ; but as
it is quite out of place among girls, whose sphere is the home circle and whose
grace a sweet retiringness, it is surely enough if their schooldays be spent in ...
He had taken all these honours two years and one year before I went up as a
freshman, and he was, as it happened, the first man pointed out to the
worshipping eyes of my youth, a man whose modesty and retiringness were as
marked as ...
Sir Leslie Stephen, Douglas William Freshfield, Sir William Martin Conway, 1909
... define that it arose from the overbearing contrast which the Count's manners,
as a man of the world, full of Nature's and Fortune's good graces, formed with his
own gentleness of temper and retiringness of disposition. Much passed between
...
9
The Youth of Shakspeare
THE behaviour ofthe youthful Shakspeare to the yeoman's blooming daughter,
might, perchance, be to the marvel of some who have in their remembrance the
infinite delicacy and retiringness of his conduct towards the beautiful foundling at
...
Robert Folkestone Williams, 1839
was just now almost cherubic in its complacency and retiringness. He looked
positively shy. Always proud of arming his equally portly wife when arrayed in her
best, this afternoon he eyed her from head to foot with the beam of a bridegroom.
